Special Session 88: 

On the mean curvature flow with free boundary supported on a double cone

Valentina-Mira Wheeler
University of Wollongong
Australia
Co-Author(s):    Glen Wheeler
Abstract:
In this talk we discuss some recent progress on the analysis of the mean curvature flow with free boundary supported on a double cone. This includes results on convergence and finite-time singularities. Singularities can be classified by their type, as in the case of the compact flow. Here, we have a new kind of singularity, that we call type 0. We give examples of support hypersurfaces that yield the development of singularities of a specified type for certain initial data. This includes examples of the elusive Type 2 singularities.